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Broke my Fisher Speedcast Push Plate: I am an idiot

Had a gut feeling that something was going to go wrong. After finishing up plowing my driveway with snow turning to rain, I headed over to fill up on gas, before a storm hits on Friday (6" plus report for now).

Driving thru down town center, I slam over a speed bump. I have accidently done this a few times before. I live in a "nothing" little "New England Town". (Example: We have 1 fire house with a volunteer dept)

When the snow gets heavy, you can't see the speed bumps, and A LOT of guys hit it.

I was only going aout 20 mph. But it was enough to break the front, upper support tab/bar on my push plate (pasenger side). Not the actual push plate section, where it is bolted to the truck frame.

I limped her home (not far) to find out the damage.

Anyways, I am going to take the plow off tomorrow, and the head gear. Hopefully the lower portion of the push plate will be able to be "come up" to the upper location (tab) that broke. I think its kind of "racked" right now, because of the plow's weight.

My buddy (Mechanic and metal guy) is coming by to check things out. I hope that we can weld the break, and also weld some plates on each side of the tab. FWIW - I only plow my 500' inclined driveway with it.

Any positive feed back will be appreciated. Either way: I would keep an eye out for a replacement push plate, as a back-up. I just hope that I can fix it by welding it =

Those things happen- especially with time not on your side. When my old man got me into plowing with my Dump, we bought a plasma cutter, a welder, and a 6.5KW generator that would run both of them just in case something like that happened...fortunately we never had to perform an operation with them.

Those things happen- especially with time not on your side. When my old man got me into plowing with my Dump, we bought a plasma cutter, a welder, and a 6.5KW generator that would run both of them just in case something like that happened...fortunately we never had to perform an operation with them.

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Thanks. I am planning on picking up a decent welding rig in the future.

Thank God for my Buddy tho = he's been a life saver many times over = super talented Jack of All Trades.